Gruffalo Mouse 7 inch, White/Brown

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Read by Imelda Staunton, The Gruffalo's Child is the number one bestselling, much-loved sequel to the worldwide phenomenon that is The Gruffalo. A mouse walks through a wood and encounters three predators—first a fox, then an owl, and finally a snake. He might have looked quite different; at first, Axel sketched out a monster who was even more frightening than the one we know!

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At first she didn't like my drawings': Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson on three decades of collaboration". The Taiwanese translator of The Gruffalo recommended the book for publication in Taiwanese because he noticed the story bore resemblance to the traditional tale.In early sketches for the book, the Gruffalo was depicted as being humanoid, troll-like, and wearing a T-shirt and trousers. From an evolutionary perspective, they say that The Gruffalo is about the methods of deception used by prey against their predators, such as when caterpillars inflate themselves to resemble a snake. Each predator is terrified by the sight of the Gruffalo and escapes to their home, but the Gruffalo believes that they are actually scared of the mouse. It utilises alliteration from the very start (such as "deep, dark woods" in the opening line), which gives more emphasis to the descriptions and helps children remember them easier.

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It tells the story of the Gruffalo's daughter discovering the mouse after hearing stories about it from her father. The production was animated at Studio Soi in Germany [59] and produced through Magic Light Pictures. In a 2010 survey by UK charity Booktime, the book came first in a list of children's favourite books. The Gruffalo won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and Blue Peter Book Award's Best Book to Read Aloud.

Touch the Gruffalo's terrible tusks, feel his knobby knees and tickle his purple prickles with this interactive touch and feel book based on the bestselling picture book. It lies, is assertive, does not make it clear to the audience what it is thinking, and uses humour to get away with its deception. But of course the Gruffalo as we know him didn’t come fully to life until Axel Scheffler picked up his pencil and drew him. then the reader turns the page to see the picture of the Gruffalo and the mouse finishes it's sentence with the exclamation "Oh!

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Donaldson said that she had admired Scheffler's illustrations for A Squash and Squeeze, and when her publisher did not suggest he would also be illustrating The Gruffalo, she sent him the text of the book herself. The book has been adapted into a 30 minute animated film, [56] which was broadcast on BBC One in the UK on 25 December 2009. Push, pull and slide the moving mechanisms to meet all your favourite characters from the deep dark wood in this brilliant board book based on the bestselling classic picture book, The Gruffalo .Some examples include the mouse averting the predators and the unusual descriptions of food, such as "owl ice cream" and "scrambled snake". million copies and has won several prizes for children's literature including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. The Gruffalo, too, has won many awards, including the Nestlé Smarties Prize and the Blue Peter Award for The Best Book to Read Aloud – and in 2009 was voted the UK’s favourite bedtime story. I thought the word had to have three syllables, and end in 'o', and would sound fierce with 'gr' at the beginning, so gruffalo came. The mouse in comparison looks threatened, [39] but the humorous grin of the Gruffalo—who looks directly at the audience rather than the mouse—alongside the playfulness of the text implies that the creature is less scary than he appears.